Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + Transfer

Anthropic
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 1 - 2 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Alignment","Technical guidance","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Own the architecture and evolution of Anthropic’s storage layers, spanning training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term retention. Design and operate secure, durable, and cost-efficient blob storage at hyper-scale, translating user access patterns into scalable systems. Lead migrations, drive cross-org alignment across security, reliability, and capacity planning, and stay hands-on in the most complex production areas.

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Anthropic
Anthropic
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Storage + Transfer

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Job Summary

Own the architecture and evolution of Anthropic’s storage layers, spanning training, CI, sandboxing, inference, warehousing, and long-term retention. Design and operate secure, durable, and cost-efficient blob storage at hyper-scale, translating user access patterns into scalable systems. Lead migrations, drive cross-org alignment across security, reliability, and capacity planning, and stay hands-on in the most complex production areas.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Anthropic’s storage layers.
  • •Build relationships with user and partner teams to understand access patterns and translate requirements into scalable designs.
  • •Partner with CSPs, networking, and datacenter teams on infrastructure primitives and cross-region storage considerations.
  • •Make principled tradeoffs across durability, availability, consistency, performance, security, and cost, documenting the reasoning for others.
  • •Lead migrations and improve operations including SLOs, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and on-call while staying hands-on in critical production areas.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 1 - 2 annually
Perks:Paid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed storage systems in production (e.g., object store, distributed file system, or block storage).
  • •Deep understanding of storage fundamentals including replication/erasure coding, consistency models, metadata management, durability, failure handling, availability, and access controls.
  • •Experience acting as an owner, tech lead, or architect for critical infrastructure systems relied on by orgs and customers.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on coding ability in at least one systems language such as C++, Rust, Go, or Java.
  • •Experience steering critical infrastructure at scale, including security, on-call/incident response, capacity planning, and cost efficiency.
Experience:Distributed storageInfrastructureHyper-scale
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationAlignmentTechnical guidanceCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++RustGoJava

Company Brief

Anthropic
Develops large-scale AI systems and safety research to create reliable, steerable, and interpretable AI assistants and models for commercial and research applications.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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